Bluez BLE Connections Monitoring using DBUS-Python

Question

I was able to advertise the BLE and setup GATT Services and Characteristics by following the "example_advertisement" and "example-gatt-server" in Bluez Examples. How can I know from DBUS when a BLE client is connected and when it is disconnected, using similar DBUS binding for Python? Which DBUS API do I look into?

ukBaz ukBaz · Accepted Answer · 2020-07-17T17:28:39

There is another example that you can look at: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/tree/test/test-discovery

When BlueZ/DBus learns of a new remote device, then the InterfacesAdded signal gets sent. When a remote device goes from disconnected, to connected. Then that is a property change on the device and the PropertiesChanged signal gets sent. This is why there is the code in the above example they use add_signal_receiver to add callbacks for both signals.

    bus.add_signal_receiver(interfaces_added,
            dbus_interface = "org.freedesktop.DBus.ObjectManager",
            signal_name = "InterfacesAdded")

    bus.add_signal_receiver(properties_changed,
            dbus_interface = "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties",
            signal_name = "PropertiesChanged",
            arg0 = "org.bluez.Device1",
            path_keyword = "path")

As a side note, the DBus bindings used in the Buez examples are not the only ones available: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/DBusBindings/

Bluez BLE Connections Monitoring using DBUS-Python

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